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I have no idea what the problem is
Raw footage from shoot was 1080p. I found out there was a problem when I exported the footage to mov format for a colleague to apply effects in After Effects. When he put it up on a 1080 workspace, everything was pixellated and looked like crap. We went in and looked at the sequence settings and it says 720×480. We tried messing with the sequence settings, changing them to 1920×1080, but now the footage only occupies a very small space in the canvas. What the heck is going on and what do I need to do to get it into the right format?
David
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Highlight all the footage. Right click and choose “remove attributes”. Choose Basic Motion and Distort.
Shane
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Also make sure the sequence settings match the footage codec and frame rate. You might have multiple errors with the timeline.
If you create a new sequence and drag one shot into the timeline, FCP should prompt you to change sequence settings to match the clip settings. Say yes and then copy paste the old sequence into the new one. As Shane says, also remove all motion attributes like size and distort.
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Thanks for the reply! Basic motion and filters are the only choices available. Everything else is grayed out. Does that matter? Also, how will this impact the work that I’ve done already?
David
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That’s fine that the other options are grey.
And if you did any push ins on footage, or repositioning, it’ll get undone when you do this.
Shane
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Ooh. That’s no good. Is there a way to get those back and still have the correct output?
David
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Thanks for the reply! I just pick one shot and then drop the whole timeline in a new sequence? They used two different cameras, so half of the clips are of different settings. How will that fact impact your suggestion, if at all?
David
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Without knowing what the two cameras were and the two codecs you are dealing with it is hard to offer advice.
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Something weird that I found. I went and followed with your suggestions, but the output was still stretched on the 1920×1080 workspace.
So I went back and checked the attributes of individual clips and found that they were all 1920×1080 with square pixels and no compression. I decided to check the overall sequence attributes and saw that they’re 720×480, with h.264 compression and the pixels are NTSC-ccir 601.
Why? Is this the source of my problem and how can I fix it?
David
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Nevermind, I saw what i was doing wrong. I got it. Thanks guys!
David
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Your SEQUENCE is 720×480 with an H.264 compressor? How the heck did that happen? Yeah, that’s a BIG problem.
[David Zietz] ” I went back and checked the attributes of individual clips and found that they were all 1920×1080 with square pixels and no compression”
Uh…what? The compressor is “None?” What codec is this footage? It really needs to be an editing codec, like ProRes. If it is NONE, that too is a huge issue.
The sequence settings should be ProRes 1920×1080 in the frame rate of the footage. And the footage should also be ProRes.
Shane
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